DeKalb County parents get letters after a girl's alleged molestation; the GM bailout leads to profit for the government with today's IPO; the first black and youngest pilot to circle the globe solo is in Atlanta; a pastor tells church officials to get off Facebook. Get all the latest KISS News Now!

• DeKalb County school officials sent letters out to parents offering safety tips regarding students walking to school.  Wednesday morning, a 4th-grader walking along Gabriel Avenue on her way to Knollwood Elementary School reported that a man touched her inappropriately.  The 10-year-old took an officer to a home where she identified Stanford Cowan, who is charged with molestation and terroristic threats. 
  
  
• President Obama was criticized for the auto company bailouts, but when General Motors is reborn as a public company today, the government stands to make nearly $14 billion profit from its investment.  The Treasury will unload more than 400 million shares of GM; common shares are expected to be priced at $33 for GM's initial public offering.  This IPO could be the biggest in American history and marks a remarkable turnaround for the company and the auto industry. 
  
  
• Cobb County Police may file charges against a woman who accidently struck a 4-year-old with her SUV Wednesday morning as the child walked with her mother along Delk Road in front of the Gardens of East Cobb Apartments.  The little girl is hospitalized in stable condition with a ruptured liver and other injuries. An eyewitness says the SUV's front and back tires ran over the girl, who was alert and crying when put into the ambulance.  The SUV driver was distraught on the scene.
  
  

• The record-holder for the youngest pilot--and first black person--to fly solo around the world is wheels down in Atlanta today.  Barrington Irving grew up in Liberty City in Miami and says he thought, coming out of that neighborhood, he never thought he'd live very long--so what could he do before he died?  Irving was 23 when he set the record in 2007 during the challenging 97-day flight.
  
"I flew through a sandstorm at 17,000 feet over Saudi Arabia," he tells KISS.  "I flew through ice storms and my airplane had no de-icing equipment.  I also flew around and through monsoons and major thunderstorms with no weather radar."

Irving says the trip was a real test of endurance.  Some of his flights lasted 12.5 hours between stops.

"There are plenty of times you think of giving up, but then, what do you wanna do?" Irving says.  "You want to prove people who doubt you right?  You want to prove people wrong.  You want to be able to beat them with their brain.  Outthink them, outsmart them, be able to achieve your goal."

Being a pilot wasn't something he grew up wanting in Liberty City, where he tells KISS 104.1's Veronica Waters that his gloomy assumption of an early death was prompted by having lost several friends to violent deaths.  Irving was a star high football player with several college scholarships waiting when his life changed. 


"I met an airline pilot that walked up to me out of the blue at a store, and asked me if I've ever thought of becoming a pilot.  I told him no, and then I asked him how much money he made.  After he answered that question, I took some interest in it," Irving laughs.

Three years later, after a lot of work, saving money from odd jobs and a lot of focus and determination, Irving got his first lesson, then his first pilot's license at age 19.

Irving's talking to hundreds of students at Creekside High School today, then leading 18 aviation students on a flight out of Charlie Brown Field with his Mitsubishi MU-2 turboprop.  He also reveals to KISS that he's set his sights on another record in 2012.


• The House ethics committee today hands Congressman Charlie Rangel his punishment--reprimand, fine, or censure.  Rangel was convicted Tuesday of 11 rules violations, mostly sloppy record-keeping. 
  
  
Nancy Pelosi has been re-elected the head of the House Democrats.  She'll become the minority leader when Congress convenes in January.

Tom Price of Georgia has been elected chairman of the Republican Policy Committee, the GOP's fifth-ranking leadership position in the House. 


• Georgia's Department of Labor says that the state's unemployment rate didn't budge from September to October.  It's at 9.9%.  This is the 37th consecutive month Georgia has exceeded the national unemployment rate.
  
  
• What if the enemy's on your Friends list?  The Air Force is warning its troops to be careful when using Facebook and other popular networking sites because some new features, like Foursquare, could show the enemy exactly where U.S. forces are located in war zones.
  
  
• Thou shalt not commit adultery; thou shalt not be on Facebook.  So says New Jersey pastor Cedric Miller, who's told church leaders to close their Facebook accounts or step down from their positions.  Miller contends too many members-- 20 couples among the 1,100 members of his Living Word Christian Fellowship Church--have run into marital problems by getting in touch with old flames online.
  
  

• Eva Longoria files for divorce from her NBA star husband amid reports that Tony Parker may be cheating on her with the wife of a San Antonio Spurs teammate.  The papers filed in Los Angeles cite "irreconcilable differences," and the couple, married in 2007, released a joint statement saying that they "love each other deeply and pray for each others happiness.''  When reporters outside the locker room asked Parker about his marital situation and the affair rumors Wednesday night, Parker would only say, "It's a difficult time right now for me and Eva.  We got a joint statement, and everything else is our private life.''
  
  
• The battle against illegal immigration has some star power in Arizona: Lou Ferrigno, of Incredible Hulk fame, and Steven Seagal are among members of a new volunteer sheriff's posse in Maricopa County.
  
  
• The KISS 104.1 weather forecast:  partly sunny to mostly sunny skies, with a high in the mid-60s.